When you come for a first session, we will spend some extra time for me to get know you. The first session will be about 2 1/2 hours long. I am interested in understanding you better, from a structural and physical point of view, as well as in a more personal way. I will want to know the about past and/or current illnesses, injuries, surgeries, relationship issues if there are any, children you have, and basic family history. Even more importantly, I want to learn about the underlying issue that is urging change in your life. You probably also have a presenting complaint, which might be a physical, emotional, or spiritual issue which finally must be addressed.
For each session, we will begin with a brief checking in. A lot happens between sessions because as your body changes, you will experience significant life changes and growth as well. I am here to help you integrate these changes and understand the physical and psychological process you go through with each session. I will give you some "heads up" about what to expect with the current session.
After a check in, I will always watch you walk and move--usually in underwear but sometimes with clothes on. Following this, I will be working on you on a low massage table. Sessions are done with you on your back, sides and sometimes on your stomach. At the end of each session, there is integration and tracking work in the seated or standing/walking position to help you balance again after your structure has been changed and aligned. At times I might suggest some yoga poses, movement practices, meditation or other suggestions to help you continue integration between sessions.
Scheduling, Between Session Help, and Integration
The Ten Series is a very efficient and fast way to change your life from the inside out. It will require you to engage with the process. As your body moves into greater balance, postural alignment and integrity, you will find that you are going through these life changes psychologically and spiritually as well. Many of my clients write me brief emails or sometimes call between sessions to share the changes they are experiencing. I welcome this as it also helps me understand you better, how you/your body integrates and adjusts to the work, as well as the pace your body naturally likes. Some people need more time or less time between sessions depending on your body's own rhythm of integration. Often you will need more time later in the series to integrate the work than in the beginning. Most clients schedule session 1 to 3 weeks apart. We usually schedule your next session after we have completed the current one.
With this work, your body will mature rapidly and work through missed or aborted stages of infancy, childhood and adolescence, hence you will experience fast growth cycles. In general the odd number sessions will be more expansive and push you toward achieving new horizons, and the even number sessions will be more grounding and help you negotiate the basics of life so that you can live with that greater expansion. Your body will generally like the odd or even sessions better depending on your body type and way of synthesizing energy to a higher vitality and organized coherency.
Brief Outline of Ten Series--Could One Session Be Enough?
You can choose to do one session only and find out if this work and my work in particular are right for you. The first session is expansive and gives a sense of hope and new life. It releases the most superficial strain patterns which are both physical and have a limiting psychological and intellectual mirroring as well. Session one will often get you out of pain to a major degree, but the problem will not be solved. From the structural point of view, I will not yet make structural corrections until beginning with session 2. Session one is more it's like clearing off the dining room table from all the life clutter so that I can actually begin to do the work you need.
Session two begins deeper structural work and is very grounding. It creates the foundation in the structure so we can truly begin to address lower back issues, shoulder/arm and hip problems, and neck other problems. This is also true if we are dealing with disease like cancer, lyme's, Parkinson's, MS, handicaps and other disabilities. The body must have a solid foundation before it can begin to make substantial changes toward greater health and vitality. This is one area in which I feel PT, chiropractic and other alternative healing processes do not understand. The body is the self, and the self will only change to the same extent that it has resolved basic fundamental structural foundational issues. This is true if the issue is an injury or physical strain, cancer or diabetes or any other illness, mental instability, divorce and relationship problems, social or academic problems in school for our children, or any other thing that the human body and person is trying to resolve toward a better and more fulfilling way of life.
Session three gives you a sense of refinement, grace and ease in the body and psyche. It is a harbinger of your session Ten. Some people get what they need with three sessions. Session three will bring you and your life into a new sense of balance. A lot of things magically seem to fall in place with session 3. However I have not yet been able to unwind the deeper rotational misalignments and issues in the organs, neural, vascular and spiritual dimensions yet. We have not yet worked to the core level of the body and psyche as will happen in the later sessions. However some people do feel that at this point, they have achieved what they need and it is a good place to rest. Sometimes people will take a break here and return after vacations, changes in work, etc. If there has been a long duration since session 3, I often repeat session 3 before beginning the core work in session 4.
I do recommend that you consider doing the full Ten Series. A great deal happens and unwinds in the core sessions 4 - 7. The work of sessions 1 - 7 is integrated into the limbs and life during the Integration sessions 8 - 10. The Ten Series is a highly choreographed bodywork therapy which quickly removes old patterns, aligns and integrates greater coherency into the core of the body, improves postural alignment and ease of movement, and increases vitality as energy moves more easily through softened and more elastic fascia. You will quickly work through some problems which other modalities have not been addressed and your life changes will be substantial toward a much better life, from the inside out. You will also experience a sense of "growing up" into a greater sense of adulthood, being able to choose more wisely how to engage and evolve your own life. For children and adolescents, they will gain a greater authenticity early on, and some nagging problems due to growth spurts, the shoes we put on young feet, and other rather restraining ideas we have about life, computer electronic use etc . . . will get some help.
Final Introduction Notes
Overall, I cherish this work because the body cannot lie. It tells it own true story. When we work to correct the basic structure of the body, all else begins to adjust in beneficial ways at every level. My work addresses many levels through many years of practice as well as teaching prior to doing healing work, significant training, and a natural gift of feeling-knowing how to unwind and put back together. I feel and see the Core Self physically and psychologically and intuitively in energy patterns. I work to bring YOU into a much higher state of coherency and truth at every level with each session.
If my work seems like it might be of value and interest to you, please feel free to write me at
coursey.rebecca@yahoo.com or call my office at (406) 587 - 0241. I truly look forward to having some time to talk with you and let you know how I might be able to help you.
Be well, with more joy, energy and knowing . . .
rebecca
